Cholera outbreak at a city hotel in Kenya, 2017: a retrospective cohort study

Authors :: Philip Ngere
Elvis Oyugi
Alexis Niyomwungere
Scolastica Wabwire
Adi Dahabo
Daniel Langat
Raphael Muli
Maurice Owiny
Source :: Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022)
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: African Field Epidemiology Network, 2022.
Abstract: Introduction: The Ministry of Health, Kenya (MOH) investigated a report on acute watery diarrhea (AWD) cases at a city hotel to confirm the cause, characterize, and identify associated factors. Methods: A suspected case of cholera was defined as AWD in any person aged >2 years at the hotel from August 31, 2017, to September 6, 2017. We took rectal swabs for laboratory confirmation and summarized the AWD data by person, place, and time. We defined a cohort of hotel staff with those who ate dinner on August 31, 2017, considered exposed and conducted a retrospective cohort study. We calculated attack rates (AR) and risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence interval. Variables with p